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There are many causes of anemia in older adults. Often, anemia is the result of chronic conditions, medications, or nutritional deficiencies.
The etiology of anemia at older age is complex and ranges from bone marrow failure syndromes to chronic kidney disease, and from nutritional deficiencies to inflammatory processes including inflammaging in immunosenescence. In a smaller number of cases, no clear-cut etiology is identified.
Causes of anemia. Different types of anemia have different causes. They include: Iron deficiency anemia. Too little iron in the body causes this most common type of anemia. Bone marrow needs iron to make hemoglobin. Without enough iron, the body can't make enough hemoglobin for red blood cells.
Causes of anemia in older adults include nutritional deficiency, chronic kidney disease, chronic inflammation, and occult blood loss from gastrointestinal malignancy,...
Older age predisposes to common causes of anemia such as nutritional deficiencies, inflammatory disorders, chronic kidney disease, and hematologic malignancies. Failure to diagnose and appropriately manage anemia may result in decreased quality of life, impaired cognition, impaired mobility, and increased mortality.
The most common causes of anemia in the elderly are chronic disease and iron deficiency. Vitamin B 12 deficiency, folate deficiency, gastrointestinal bleeding and myelodysplastic syndrome...
Causes of anemia in the elderly are divided into three broad groups: nutritional deficiency, anemia of chronic disease (ACD) and unexplained anemia (UA). These groups are not, however, mutually exclusive.
There are different types of anemia, including iron-deficiency anemia (when you do not have enough iron), vitamin-deficiency anemia (when you do not have enough of a vitamin like folic acid), aplastic anemia (when your body stops producing red blood cells), anemia associated with a chronic disease (when anemia results from a condition like kidne...
The pathogenesis of anemia was multifactorial, with decreased renal function (glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min/1.73 m 2), signs of inflammation, and functional iron deficiency detected in 11.4% of anemic patients.
The term “anemia in the elderly” (from here designed as “AE”) is now preferable, and implicates that, at least in principle, the cause of low Hb in an elderly subject should be determined and, if possible, treated. The first step to face this problem is an adequate definition.